Happy Birthday Karl Marx. You filled a void by reminding the world how totally wrong one human can be and how stupid and dead so many people are for believing you.. (See 1 below.)
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People often ask me why I never got involved in politics. I never had any interest in spending my life cutting deals. I never had any interest in believing I knew what was best for my fellow man and that I should have power over how he lived his life. I had enough politics when every year my fraternity engaged in slime ball rushing. In fact, it caused me to actually leave my fraternity and go live down town. That said, I also, to this day, remain close to some wonderful former fraternity brothers who are bright, made wonderful productive careers for themselves and their families and are good decent citizens.
Were I a candidate for office in 2018, I would be delighted that Ms. Pelosi is seeking to become Speaker. I would be delighted that caravans of people are seeking to enter our nation illegally and are making a mockery of our laws supported, in their efforts, by "Moonbeam" Governors who have lost their minds and all sense of logic and reasoning.
I would be delighted to support a president who is accomplishing where his predecessors failed notwithstanding the fact that his methods are off the wall and his personality, at times, is grating. I would be delighted to run as a candidate defending Trump from being impeached by Democrats who have violated more laws, told more lies and besmirched and corrupted more agencies than any administration in recent history.
Perhaps, when dealing with thugs, you have to get thuggish. Bush 41 was a very decent man but "preppiness" does not cut it when you are up against a Putin. Reagan understood Russia had few chips and was a good poker player.
If Americans want Pelosi as Speaker and Rep. Waters to impeach Trump then this nation is no longer worth saving. Why? Because the level of hatred, cult of personal destruction and identity politics that has consumed the Democrat Party, whose sole goal is to criminalize every act in order to destroy the opposition, has exceeded anything defensible.
I would not run as a Republican, per se, but as a logical conservative and I would pledge never to vote for any legislation that indebted the nation.
I would try and run a campaign that sought to educate people about what distinguishes America from all the other nations and why what we have created needs to be preserved and continued and that Democrats are dangerous because their ideas have proven costly, ineffective and have brought our military to its lowest state of readiness but then they always do.
I would happily embrace Trump's policies and actions because they have been basically good for our nation. He has been willing to touch the third rail, to call a spade a spade and to try and reverse the tide. Finally I would happily run against the mass media because of their bias and because they have failed in their responsibility to serve in the role of our nation's ombudsman and have, instead, chosen to become entertainment centered.
In running a campaign along the lines I have outlined I would be seeking to appeal to and focus on "deplorables."
I would run a low budget campaign in keeping with my conservatism, would probably lose but I would walk away feeling I could live with myself because I would not have sold my soul in order to win.
Republicans, all too often, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because they come across as pandering politicians who tell voters what voters know is not believable. Conservative Republicans are skeptical voters. They see through frauds. Democrat progressive voters place winning above everything and tend to embrace frauds. Otherwise, how can one explain the nomination of Obama, one of the most unqualified candidates to seek the presidency in history and whose record of accomplishments was more barren than Mother Hubbard's cupboard. (See 2 below.)
Incidentally, what ever happened to Al Franken? I thought the nation could not live without him.
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Karl Marx, You Were Wrong
But campus diehards still make a case for him.
This week marks the birthday of one of history’s worst human beings, Karl Marx. Just because Marx’s philosophy would lead directly to the deaths of 100 million human beings over the course of a century, the imprisonment of tens of millions more in gulags and reeducation camps from Russia to China to Vietnam to Cambodia to North Korea, and the oppression of hundreds of millions more hasn’t dissuaded those on the modern Western left from embracing Marx’s bloody legacy. Realizing, however, that embracing Communism itself might alienate those who remember the Berlin Wall, today’s Marxists rally instead for identity politics. In the pages of the New York Times — the same newspaper that in the past two years has run opinion pieces endorsing Communism’s impact on female empowerment and female sexual activity and its inspirational effects on Americans — Kyung Hee University associate professor of philosophy Jason Barker celebrated Marx’s birthday, writing, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!”
What, exactly, was Marx right about?
He wasn’t right about economics — his theory of economics is tripe. He wasn’t right about history unfolding as a glorious Hegelian progression toward a socialist utopia either. But according to Baker, he was right about one thing: The dispossessed of the world would unite to change human nature by changing the system of oppression under which they lived. Marx, says Baker, was right about class exploitation — the rich exploiting the poor. But it’s in the guise of victim groups based on race and sex that Marx’s dialectic finds its true apotheosis:
Racial and sexual oppression have been added to the dynamic of class exploitation. Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, owe something of an unspoken debt to Marx through their unapologetic targeting of the “eternal truths” of our age. Such movements recognize, as did Marx, that the ideas that rule every society are those of its ruling class and that overturning those ideas is fundamental to true revolutionary progress.
Here, Baker is merely rehashing the writings of members of the Frankfurt School Marxists such as Herbert Marcuse, who argued that human beings who have lived in the shadow of this culture, the victims of the power structure, . . . now oppose to the “music of the spheres” which was the most sublime achievement of this culture their own music, with all the defiance, and the hatred, and the joy of rebellious victims, defining their own humanity against the definitions of the masters.
Instead of a revolution of the proletariat, then, Marxism now seeks a revolution of the victims — the various groups of dispossessed who feel that the system has been stacked against them. And it is far easier to unite such groups around intersectional themes than it is to unite them around income disparity. There may not be any serious brotherhood between those who don’t earn much money, but pure tribalism forms lasting ties — and Marxists are happy to mold those tribes into a new nation of rebels.
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The hope, of course, is that such a new nation would in turn breed a new type of human being. Baker explains that we are “used to the go-getting mantra that to effect social change we first have to change ourselves.” But in reality, according to Marx, we cannot change ourselves because the system has already defined us. By redefining the system, we can “transition to a new society where relations among people, rather than capital relations, finally determine an individual’s worth.” All we have to do is band together to tear down capitalism, and man will blossom forth in his full beauty. Tearing down is building up.
This is dangerous nonsense. And while advocates of Marxism today disown the Stalinists and the Maoists and the Castro regime and Venezuela and North Korea, all of those nations thought they were fulfilling Marx’s dream, too. That’s because they were. There is no new human nature on the horizon; human beings aren’t defined purely by the system under which they live. Only a system that makes room for our all-too-human flaws, that counterbalances failings with consequences and selfishness with non-aggression, can channel those flaws into something useful.
No, Marx wasn’t right. But the Left will never let him go, because he offers the only true alternative to the religious view of human nature — the view of man that says he is not a blank slate, not an angel waiting for redemption, but a flawed creature capable of great things. To achieve those great things is hard work. To change ourselves on an individual level is hard work. To spout about the evils of society — that’s certainly easy enough.
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2)Tyrone was having trouble in school; his teacher was always yelling at him, "You're driving me crazy, Tyrone; can't you learn anything?"
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2)Tyrone was having trouble in school; his teacher was always yelling at him, "You're driving me crazy, Tyrone; can't you learn anything?"
One day Tyrone's mother came to school to see how he was doing. The teacher told her honestly that her son was simply a disaster, getting very low marks, and that she had never had such an unmotivated and ignorant boy in her entire teaching career.
Tyrone's mom, shocked at the feedback, withdrew her son from school and moved out of Detroit, relocating to Cleveland.
Twenty-five years later, the teacher was diagnosed with irreversible cardiac disease. Her doctors all strongly advised her to have open heart surgery, which only one surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic could perform.
Left with no other options, the teacher decided to have the operation, which was remarkably successful.
When she opened her eyes after the surgery she saw the handsome young doctor who headed her surgical team smiling down at her.
She wanted to thank him, but could not talk.
Her face started to turn blue, she raised her hand, trying to tell him something, but quickly died.
The doctor was shocked, wondering what went wrong so suddenly.
When the doctor turned around to leave the room, he saw Tyrone, now a janitor at the Clinic, had unplugged the life-support equipment in order to plug in his vacuum cleaner.
If you thought Tyrone had become a heart-surgeon, there is an extremely high likelihood you voted for Hillary.
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